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,Cooking Stove.

Patented Feb. 1

'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.O

GILES F. FILLEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

COOKING-sTove.

sPE-cIFIcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,101, datea-February 1, 1881.

Application filed December 6, 1880. (N o model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GILES F. FILLEY, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made anew and useful Improvement in Cooking Stoves and Ranges, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and eX- act description, reference being hadto the an. neXed drawings, making part of this specification, in Which-Figure l is a view, in perspective, of acooking-stove having theimprovement. the outer oven-door being closed; and Fig. 2, a similarview, savingthat the outeroven-dooris opened.

The saineletters denote the same parts.

I have heretofore made an improvement in cooking stoves and ranges, theaim and effect of which is to enable the outer air to directly andfreelypass into and th rough the oven during the cooking, the improvementconsisting in finely perforatingfthe oven door or doors, the airentering and leaving the oven through the perforations.

The present improvement consists in providing the oven with an outerimperforate door, enabling the oven, when desired, to be closed againstthe admission of the air.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a cookingstove having theimprovement, and, saving as modified thereby, being of the usualdescription, B being the oven, and C the main and inner oven-door,perforated asin the. original construction, the perforated portion cbeing preferably in the form of gauze held in the frame c', which ishinged at e202, and provided with the handle c3.

I) represents an outer oven-door. It is imperforate, hinged at d d,provided with the handle d', and when closed, as in Fig. 1, it coversthe perforated portion c of the inner ovendoor, G. By this means theoven can be entirely closed, as seen in Fig. l, or the outer door, D,can be opened, as in Fig. 2. At times and with certain articles of foodit is desirable to close both doors, and even in cooking a certainarticle it'may be desired to entirely close the oven at certain stagesof the operation. The outer door is also a protection in shipping thestove or when the stove is not being used.

I am aware that the furnace-chamber of a heating-stove has heretoforebeen provided with an inner perforated Iand an outer close door.

I claim- Iu a Cookin g stove or range, the oven B, having an innerperforated door, G, and an outer imperforate door, D, substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

GILES F. FILLEY.

Witnesses C. D. MOODY, CHARLES PIcKLEs.

